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Fahrenheit 451 was Bradbury's protest against television. So will there come a time when paper books will be outlawed? I wouldn't say it can't happen.
If it happens the excuse will be that paper books deprive authors of income. Publishers will say that people should have to pay every time they read anything other than advertisements. People can read a paper book without anyone else even knowing that they are reading. How can publishing survive such a situation?
Cory Doctorow has pointed out more times than I can count that copyright is about benefiting publishers, not authors like himself. He says that giving authors more rights to their work is like giving your bullied kid more lunch money. It won't get your kid fed. No matter how much you give him, the bully will take it. If you invent a new right for authors, they'll just have to sign that right away to the publisher in order to be published.
AI was behind the recent writers' strike in Hollywood. The writers won that battle. Will they win the next strike? It remains to be seen.
Cory says the wealthy don't think the rest of us are actually real. It may seem that way, but I think they do believe we're real. They think we're real, and they hate us. They really, really hate us. If the CEO doesn't come to work one day, everything goes on without interruption. But if the people who actually do the work stay home, nothing gets done.
The wealthy hate being reminded that they're useless parasites. That's why they so desperately want to replace the rest of us with software. They can "create" books with AI. If they write the request to the software, they can take personal credit for what the software does. They can pretend that they're not worthless parasites.
Same, of course, with movies. The whole world is turning into AI slop. Can we stop it? I'm not sure.
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in reply to diana 🏳️⚧️🦋 • • •Well of course I looked it up.
Apparently, when you call this number, a machine tells you what number you're calling from.
Fahrenheit 451 was Bradbury's protest against television. So will there come a time when paper books will be outlawed? I wouldn't say it can't happen.
If it happens the excuse will be that paper books deprive authors of income. Publishers will say that people should have to pay every time they read anything other than advertisements. People can read a paper book without anyone else even knowing that they are reading. How can publishing survive such a situation?
Cory Doctorow has pointed out more times than I can count that copyright is about benefiting publishers, not authors like himself. He says that giving authors more rights to their work is like giving your bullied kid more lunch money. It won't get your kid fed. No matter how much you give him, the bully will take it. If you invent a new right for authors, they'll just have to sign that right away to the publisher in order to be published.
AI was behind the recent writers' strike in Hollywood. The writers won that battle. Will they win the next strike? It remains to be seen.
Cory says the wealthy don't think the rest of us are actually real. It may seem that way, but I think they do believe we're real. They think we're real, and they hate us. They really, really hate us. If the CEO doesn't come to work one day, everything goes on without interruption. But if the people who actually do the work stay home, nothing gets done.
The wealthy hate being reminded that they're useless parasites. That's why they so desperately want to replace the rest of us with software. They can "create" books with AI. If they write the request to the software, they can take personal credit for what the software does. They can pretend that they're not worthless parasites.
Same, of course, with movies. The whole world is turning into AI slop. Can we stop it? I'm not sure.
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